WASHINGTON, Feb. 19, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --
Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S.
Census Bureau:
ENGINEERING WEEK
Profile America — Sunday, February 19th. Every time
we use a phone, drive a car, watch TV, cross a bridge, or do myriad
everyday activities, we are benefitting from the accumulated work
of a most important, broad profession — engineering. To celebrate
its contribution to our way of life, today kicks off National
Engineers Week. During this time, engineering societies and
corporations will reach out to schoolchildren and stage events
across the country to call attention to the achievements of the
profession. From iPods to skyscrapers to space rockets, engineers
apply science, math and principles of matter and energy to provide
useful things to us. There are nearly 59,000 engineering
establishments in the U.S. Broadly defined, there are over 2
million engineers building our modern society. You can
find more facts about America's people, places and economy,
from the American Community Survey, at www.census.gov.
Sources:
Occasion/accessed 12/1/2016:
http://www.nspe.org/resources/partners-and-state-societies/national-engineers-week
Engineering establishments/County Business Patterns/NAICS 541330:
hhttp://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/BP/2014/00A1//naics~541330
Engineers in the U.S./accessed 11/1/2016:
https://www.nspe.org/resources/press-room/resources/frequently-asked-questions-about-engineering
Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and
Promotion of the U.S. Census Bureau. Statistics and accounts drawn
from cited non-Census sources are employed for illustrative or
narrative purposes, and are not attested to by the U.S. Census
Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments,
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SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau